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ZUM4939813: Aug. 08, 1954 - Demonstration of the U.S. Army's new 75 MM Skysweeper anti - aircraft gun: The United States Army's new 75 mm Skysweeper, a large caliber automatic anti-aircraft artillery weapon, was fired at radio controlled and towed targets before high ranking British Army officials and members of the press, at Weybourns, Norfolk, today. The new gun which can find and track approaching aircraft as far away as 15 miles, is capable of firing on and defeating air targets as far away as four miles. The weapon, equipped with radar, computer, and gun all on one carriage, operates day on night regardless of weather conditions, even when aircraft are invisible in a blanketing fog / Bridgeman Images
ELD4923368: Battle of the Catalaunique Fields, where the Romans, the Francs and Visigoths reunited put the huns of Attila and the ostrogoths near Troyes, Dawn - Barbarian Invasions - (Battle of the Catalaunian Plains or battle of Chalon or battle of Maurica, took place in AD 451 between a coalition led by the Roman general Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I against the Huns and their allies commanded by their leader Attila) Drawing by Marcel Jeanjean (1893-1973) draws from “” Les beaux episodes de la histoire de France”” 1922 Collection privee, Jeanjean, Marcel Joseph (1893-1973) / Bridgeman Images